"Sticks": Thomas Sayers Ellis

This poem, "Sticks," has somewhat of a twist to it. It starts out as a poem where he's talking about his family life and really emphasizes about his father and how he's more of bigger and muscular guy and that he wanted to be like him. He makes you really feel the intensity of the poem by saying "I learned to use my hands watching him use his, pretending to slap mother when he slapped mother". Then he states he discovered writing where he really let all of his feeling by using word like "BAM" to express his emotions and to control his thoughts. He digs real deep into his emotions so that you feel exactly as he does, which makes it a great poem.